In South Africa, the coronavirus is surging, hitting more than 500,000 cases on Saturday.
Gravediggers have been asked to prepare dozens of graves as the number of COVID-19 deaths increases. He hoped that Africa would be saved from the worst, however, the virus is spreading mercilessly, and more than a portion of all instances on the continent are in South Africa.
Doctors at a Johannesburg hospital are seeing a marked increase in the number of critical patients. So much so that they had to move to a pediatric ward in a high-risk COVID unit.
Field hospitals have been set up to deal with the explosion of infections since the reduction of closure restrictions. Oxygen is the new thing about this pandemic, and it’s rare.
“We are very concerned, the era is doubtful. Array… we don’t know how the fitness formula will respond,” said Dr. Richard Cooke, a circle of family members who specialize in fitness. “What is essential is that we do everything we can, on a daily basis, to be able to do it in the most temporary way possible.”
But in the country’s poorest province, the Eastern Cape, the health care formula is collapsing. In an overcrowded hospital, a security guard had to cover the workers’ medical corps while a patient was transported. At Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth, the lack of beds means patients are being discharged.
“It’s heartbreaking that you and your team have to say no to someone’s mother, someone’s grandmother, someone’s father, someone’s uncle,” said Dr. Tobisa Fodo, an intensive care doctor.
The workers’ medical corps secretly took photographs of overflowing medical waste, rats feeding on blood-stained soils, damaged appliances and the lack of a protective apparatus.
As more and more people die in under-funded hospitals, the number of tapes attached to the outside of a church continues to increase. Each tape represents a South African life claimed through the virus.
An early shutdown in South Africa has led to a late spread of coronavirus, but has now come into force, and experts say it is expected to peak until September.